Hey, Israel Story listeners, it's Mishi.

So it's been 50 years since the Unki-Pu War, and as such we want to share our Tel-Saki

project, which first came out in 2021.

Over the course of two episodes, we go back to the horrors of the war, and specifically

to one small hill in the southern Golan Heights, where, over the course of 36 hours, a group

of young IDF soldiers went to hell and back.

Here is Tel-Saki Part 1, and may it be a calm and peaceful year for us all.

To Pits, who was beside me during the most crucial part of our military training, and

who, together with me, wrote the first chapter of what was meant to be a widely funny book

before the sky fell on us.

To Pits, my sole brother, who tried to break through hundreds of Syrian soldiers in order

to reach me, who is still trying to reach me.

To my dear Stilana, mother of our four children, we agreed to marry me after a return from prison,

and who has put up with my many breakdowns all these years.

To you, I am eternally grateful, to Benny, whose voice calling out to me on the comes

before going silent forever, still rings in my ear.

To Rani, who took my place on the machine gun for one short minute, that stretch to eternity.

My thanks is given to each of the hundreds of interviews for this book.

For some, it was a cleansing experience for others, a real trauma.

Jacob, are you there?

My words break into Hebrew letters as they are tossed and carried away.

To all the families who put their sons' lives in my hands, and I still do not have the

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